[lg policy] WTF is 2010 Word of the Year

[Armen Grigoryan]

Happy New Year!

Productive and wonderful 2011!

Sincerely,
Armen Grigoryan


On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Christina Paulston <paulston at pitt.edu>wrote:

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> Francis, nu kommer någon att klaga att listan är inte till før fula ord.
>  Happy New Year ! Christina
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> On Dec 27, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Francis Hult wrote:
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>  Say it loud and say it proud:
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26UA578yQ5g&feature=BF&list=PL8877344B6FE69DAF&index=1
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>> From: lgpolicy-list-bounces at groups.sas.upenn.edu on behalf of Chris Allen
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>> Subject: Re: [lg policy] WTF is 2010 Word of the Year
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>> what the F***??
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>> From: "Christina Paulston" <paulston at pitt.edu>
>> To: "Language Policy List" <lgpolicy-list at groups.sas.upenn.edu>
>> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 4:03:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: [lg policy] WTF is 2010 Word of the Year
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>> So what is WTF an acronym of?  Christina
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>> On Dec 25, 2010, at 11:10 PM, Dennis Baron wrote:
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>> There's a new post on the  Web of Language :
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>> WTF is 2010 Word of the Year
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>> Each December the Web of Language chooses one word or phrase which best
>> exemplifies the spirit of the year gone by. It may be a new word, like
>> "refudiate," chosen as word of the year this year by the Oxford American
>> Dictionary, or an old one, like "austerity," Merriam-Webster's choice. It
>> could be a word that lasts: "blog" and "information superhighway" were words
>> of the year. But it could be an obscure word as well: "locavore," for
>> example, which few people had a taste for, or worse yet, "plutoed," a word
>> with the visibility of a very dim comet (neither word was Web of Language
>> approved). Then there was "roadside bomb." That morbid phrase appeared in so
>> many daily headlines about the War in Iraq in 2005 and 2006 that it was the
>> Web of Language word of the year two years running.
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>> WTF, this year's word of the year, rolls up into a single acronym the
>> popular reaction to the most salient events of the year gone by. It's the
>> perfect response to just about anything. Exit polls taken during the
>> mid-term elections in November showed that, regardless of age, gender,
>> economic status, sexual preference, or party affiliation, the most common
>> voter reaction before, during, and after the election was, "WTF?" The word
>> had an even greater following among nonvoters, who frequently used WTF as
>> their excuse for staying away from the polls.
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>> read the rest of this post on the Web of Language: http://bit.ly/weblan
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>> Dennis Baron
>> Professor of English and Linguistics
>> Department of English
>> University of Illinois
>> 608 S. Wright St.
>> Urbana, IL 61801
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>> http://www.illinois.edu/goto/debaron
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>> Graduate School of Education
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